I am sorry about your loss.
In a way I think it has. I don't have very many friends that do what I do. Today I had a friend over that sews/quilts and does some other crafting that I do. Sometimes her and her daughter and I will go shopping and make a day of it together. We have fun. I am in a sewing group but most of those ladies live quite a ways away ( an hour or more). I guess I could get involved in a quilt group that meets in the next town over. but they meet at night and really I don't want to go out at night.